Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership This story is part of an NPR series, We Hold These Truths, on American democracy. toggle caption Nevil Jackson for NPR Amina Hassan, who has written a biography about Miller, says the win was monumental because "housing was the crux of it all." toggle caption Nevil Jackson for NPR What they did …
David Tyler, a homeless resident of Echo Park, posts a sign on his tent in Echo Park as protesters gathered Monday morning to stop a possible cleaning sweep of a homeless encampment in the northwest corner of Echo Park. Exactly 50 years ago, Echo Park found itself at a similar inflection point — this time with white homeowners pitted against …